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macauhtoc.

Headword: 
macauhtoc.
Principal English Translation: 

something loose, separate (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mācāuhtoc
IPAspelling: 
mɑːkɑːwtok
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀCĀUHTOC something loose, separate / suelto (Z) [(3)Zp. 118,165,227]. Z has MĀ in the verb MĀCAHCĀHU(A), and there is agreement across sources on MĀCĀHU(A), but in two of the three attestations of this in Z, there is MAH instead of MĀ . See MĀCĀHU(A), the verb O.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 127.